Parashat Matot-Masei August 3 - 9, 2019 — 2 - 8 Av 5779 Shacharit—Benjamin Parris, Torah reading — pg 900, Baal Koreh — Jerry Rotenberg Haftarah— Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4; 4:1-2 pg 1193 — Arden Wandel Taste of Torah parashah shiur with Essie Fleischman at 10:00 am in the Gallery Musaf — Rabbi Chaitovsky
Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky Cantor Martin Goldstein The Week Ahead Ilene Rosen—Executive Director Cantor Emeritus Joel Lichterman Saturday— August 3 Jeff Kline— Shul President Cantor Emeritus Zachary Kutner Daf Yomi 8:00 am Sanctuary 9:00 am Chapel 9:15 am Mincha 7:50 pm Havdalah 8:53 pm Sunday— August 4 Daf Yomi 7:30 am Shacharit, Chapel 8:30 am Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm Monday— August 5 Daf Yomi 5:30 am Shacharit, 6:30 am Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm Sefer HaChinuch 8:00 pm Tuesday— August 6 Daf Yomi 5:45 am Shacharit 6:45 am Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm Wednesday— August 7 Daf Yomi 5:45 am Shacharit 6:45 am The Nine Days commenced on Rosh Chodesh Av, Friday, August 2, 2019, and Rabbi’s Class 7:30 am Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm culminate on the public fast day of Tisha B'Av. During this time we mourn the Thursday— August 8 destruction of the Beit HaMikdash and “diminish our joy” in our daily lives. We Daf Yomi 5:30 am do not hold weddings or other festive gatherings, play or listen to musical Shacharit 6:30 am instruments, or purchase new clothing. We refrain from eating meat and Mincha/Maariv 6:30 pm drinking wine, except on Shabbat. Hair cutting and shaving are also prohibited. Friday— August 9 Tisha B’Av will begin next Saturday evening. Daf Yomi 5:45 am Shacharit 6:45 am Please join us for a kool Kiddush in the Social Hall sponsored by BMH-BJ. Mincha 6:30 pm If you wish to sponsor a Kiddush, breakfast, or rent space in the synagogue please call Candle Lighting 7:44 pm שבת שלום ומבורך! us at 303-388-4203. Please respect the sanctity of our services by refraining from entering or leaving while the ark is open, Mourners Kaddish, Kedusha and Sermon. Please note that our services are cell free zones.
Parshah Matot Summary (Matot — Bamidbar/Numbers 30:2-32:42 pg 900) Moses conveys the laws governing the annulment of vows to the heads of the tribes of Israel. War is waged against Midian for their role in plotting the moral destruction of Israel, and the Torah gives a detailed account of the war spoils and how they were allocated amongst the people, the warriors, the Levites and the High Priest or Kohen Gadol. The tribes of Reuben and Gad (later joined by half of the tribe of Manasseh) ask for the lands east of the Jordan as their portion in the Promised Land, these being prime pastureland for their cattle. Moses is initially angered by the request, but subsequently agrees on the condition that they first join, and lead, in Israel’s conquest of the lands west of the Jordan. Parshat Massei Summary (Masei — Bamidbar/Numbers 33-36:13 pg 918) The Parashah reports on the wanderings of Israel from the time that they left Egypt to the time they reached the borders of Canaan. Forty encampment places are named—beginning with Rameses in Egypt and ending with the Plains of Moab by the Jordan River at Jericho. Soon they would be entering the land promised them by G-d. Moses warns Israel that, when they settle in Canaan, they must destroy all of the pagan temples of the Canaanites. Israel must take no part in the Canaanite idol worship. If Israel failed to comply with this command they would run into great trouble. The Sidrah gives a detailed description of what were to be the boundaries of the Land of Israel. Moses appointed ten Israelite leaders, under the supervision of Eleazar and Joshua, to deal with the distribution of land among the tribes. The tribe of Levi, whose members were to serve as the religious teachers of the Israelites, was to be distributed among special residential cities, with land attached to each, spread among the territories of the other tribes. There were to be about forty-eight of these Levitical cities. Further, the Sidrah reports on the designation of cities of refuge, of which there were to be six, in various parts of the land. Should a man kill another by accident, he would seek refuge in these specially assigned cities from those who might want revenge. In these cities a man was safe until his case could be tried. Bamidbar (the Book of Numbers) ends with laws concerning the inheritance of property by women. Previously, the daughters of Tzelafchad proposed to Moses that since their father died without leaving male heirs, that they should inherit their father’s portion. Thus the laws of inheritance are amended once and then a second time that in order for an inheritance to remain valid, women should marry anyone of their choice within their own tribe! Thus the daughters marry within the Tribe of Manasseh, so that the estate which they inherit from their father should not pass to the province of another tribe. In Today’s Haftarah( Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4; 4:1-2 pg 1193) In the Haftarah, Jeremiah, born near Jerusalem in 660 B.C.E., brought his prophetic messages to his Judean brothers, and warns them of the difficult times ahead. Jeremiah pleaded with the people of Judea to do away with idol worship and to return to the service of our one G-d. He asks of them—why do they continue to distance themselves from their true G-d? Do they not recognize that their one true G-d elevated them from slavery to freedom, was their guide in the wilderness, and brought them to the lands that surround Carmel which have sustained them for centuries?
Daily/Weekly Torah Learning ►Conversational Hebrew Class (on break) ►Daf-Yomi one hour before Shacharit - Roberta Feinsmith - Rabbi Fleischmann ►Women’s Parashah Shiur Thursdays 11:00 am ►Law, Legend & Lore daily after Mincha - Ellyn Hutt (No classes August 1, 8, or 15. Classes will - Rabbi Chaitovsky resume on Thursday, August 22) ►Sefer HaChinuch Mondays at 8:00 pm ►Taste of Torah Shabbat at 10:00 am - Rabbi Stern - Essie Fleischmann ►Verse by Verse through the Torah ►Ten Minutes of Text Shabbat at Seudah Shelishit Wednesdays at 7:30 am - Rabbi Chaitovsky - Rabbi Chaitovsky
Birthdays Tamara Berkman, Iran Emeson, Alvin Fishman, Rachel Geller, Solomon Kobel, Henny Levitt, Refoel Levitt, Dahlia Linkow, Sadie Linkow, Juliadele Male, Nicole Preiss, Jordan Preiss, Somer Reznick, Molly Rosen, Samuel Schreiber, Denise Schweid, Helen Starr, Selma Zwerdlinger Anniversaries Gary & Barbara Oxman (44) Joel & Michelle Sisk (13) Melvin & Myrna Engbar (59) Allan & Sherry Tenenbaum (55) Refuah Sheleima/Speedy Recovery Chaim Binyamin ben Sara, Esther bat Chana, Sara Behmoaras, Risa Shayna bat Batya, Jan Buckstein, Paula Burger, Linda Fox, Max Furer, Pip Goldstein, Elaine Greenberg, Francine Greenberg (Feige Esther bat Ita Liba), Dr. Stuart Gottesfeld, Hilda Kass, Doniel Kaye, Isaak Ben Beile (Isaac Krajmalnick), Shagraka Fagal ben Sima (Fabian Krajmalnick), Dona Mandell, Jerry Marcus (Hillel David Chaim ben Miryam), Danney McReynolds (Dun ben Abraham), Mark Millenson, Toby Mower (Tova bat Liba), Mordechai ben Pauline, Barbara Oxman, Lilian Schaeffer, Shabbtai Yaakov ben Channah, Miriam Sisk (Miriam bat Batya), Tamar bat Phoebe, David Weinstein, Terry Wolf, Tziviya Trana bat Rivka, Bayla bat Chaya Feliga Yachnowitz, Dana Waldbaum Yahrzeits Shabbat, August 3, 2019 / 2 Av 5779 Udlya Avrutina, Benjamin Bass, Louis (Label) Berenstein, Reba Bilker, John Boyd, Henry A. Enrich, Sylvia Esquibel, Isadore Ettelman, Joseph Galub, Sally Garlick, Meer Grinberg, David Hartman, Marty Allen Hayutin, Mildred Jacobs, Felix Kahn, Marcia Gail "Missy" Kelne, Edward Levin, Timothy Parker, Harry Perlov, Leah Rosenthal, Edgar Schweig, Batya Shmulevitz, David Silver, Ettie Weiss
Sunday, August 4, 2019 / 3 Av 5779 Zelda Banner, Charles Behrman, Anna Bomash, Rose Cohn, Bertha Grossman, Hyman I. Hirschfeld, Sarah Joffe, Samuel Koch, Dr. Irving Locke, Meyer Pepper, Ron Rosen, Louis Rothman, Sveltana Rozova, Jacob C. Schachet, Morris Snyder, Abraham Strait, Gladys Strauss, Lauren Marie Susman, Charlotte Louise Wolf
Monday, August 5, 2019 / 4 Av 5779 Israel Ben-Zeev, Hilde Berdach, Edith Berman, Rose Carman, Yudif Fish, Fanny Fry, Frank Gawerc, Leo Gerstein, Leja Kirkel, Frida Kirkel, Jacob Kleiner, Jerome E. Korklin, Harold Levett, Frances Rayor Levine, Dr. Samuel Levine, Jacob S. Miller, Benjamin Molk, Mano Neulander, Pesya Novoselskaya, Izrail Pelts, Clare Pressler, Esther Rosenbaum, Joseph Sigman, Abe Stein, Jeanette Vangorkom, Barney Zipes
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 / 5 Av 5779 Lena Cashman, Louis Cohen, David B. Cook, Elizabeth Ann Edwards, Shirley Friedland, Gordon Friednash, Samuel M. Gardner, Evelyn Himelgrin, Dr. Benjamin Kaplan, Sheindel Karp, Ben Katz, Nettie Langfelder, Vladimir Soltanovich, Albert Jack Strouts, Bessie Waldman
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 / 6 Av 5779 Sara Berger Bass, Max Berman, Mordecai Feldman, Zalman Flaks, Dora Hoffman, Bess Riva Hayutin Kaplan, Edwin Kolodny, Eva Levine, Cantor Jakub Lichterman, Celia Lipan, Berthold Maier, Joseph Rifkin, Helen Robinson, Jacob Safer, Morris L. Safran, Alan Schoen, Patti Seifert, Shraga Feivel Shajawitz, Kahsya Shtrom, Ida Tempelhof, Minnie Wasserstein, Sarah Zaler, Lilly Zuckerman
Thursday, August 8, 2019 / 7 Av 5779 Brancha Zachery Abrams, Kate Baer, Annette Caplan, Esther Feld, Irene Fiedelman, Gertrude Flaks, Paul Friedman, Marcel Fuchs, Miriam Gordon, Carolyn Hein, Lillian Hepner, Morris Karden, Jacob Katzson, Saul Kornfield, Edith Kraut, Uri Lissauer, Rosaline Miller, Gertrude Moss, Eric Neuberger, Sam S. Orlinsky, Bessie Pashell, Anita Rubinowitz, Isadore L. Sadie, Sid Schomay, Annette Shoor, Isaac Slatkin, Al Sorkin, Simon J. Spiegleman, Harry Strait, Samuel Topelson, Sandra Wittow
Friday, August 9, 2019 / 8 Av 5779 Ida Adelman, Marvin V. Appel, Neil Charney, Rubien Flax, Myrel Devora Fox, Eric Lewis Friedentag, Eli Harry Ginsberg, Eli Ginsberg, Dorothy Goldstein, Samuel J. Goodman, Arnold Gorshaw, Jacob M. Krause, Morris Kurland, Henry Newman, David Nikolayevsky, Ray Novak, Scott Pepper, Mary Rabinowitz, Marilyn Ravdin, George Schneider, Max Schreiber, Charles Schwarz, Philip Smolensky, Golda Spring, Albert Vean
Happenings @ BMH-BJ Our Bingo Group is having a MUST-GO — Thursday, August 8 at 11:30 am at Turn of the Century Bingo This must-go session will pay out $8,000-$10,000!! Join us at 1921 S. Havana St. Tisha B’Av at BMH-BJ — Motzei Shabbat, August 10 — Sunday, August 11 Mincha — August 10 at 6:45 pm Fast Begins — Motzei Shabbat at 8:02 pm Maariv & Eicha — Motzei Shabbat at 9:00 pm Shacharit & Kinnot — Sunday at 8:30 am Tisha B’Av Family Art Project — Sunday, August 11 at 10:15 am A meaningful event for families with children ages 5-12. Families will work together to make a “Im Eshkachech Yerushalalyim” wall hanging. As families are creating their art work Rabbi Chaitovsky will lead a discussion on the importance of remembering Jerusalem and the suffering of our ancestors. Tisha B’Av Film and Discussion Film and Discussion — Sunday, August 11 at 5:45 pm Join Rabbi Chai for a viewing of “Nicky’s Family” followed by a discussion. “Nicky’s Family” tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII. Mincha/Maariv — Sunday, August 11 at 7:40 pm Havdalah / End of Fast — Sunday, August 11 at 8:43 pm Chesed Group Meeting — Tuesday, August 13 at 11:00 am in the Library Join us as we continue our efforts to help members of our shul community. Everyone is welcome. For information or to volunteer contact Bobbie at [email protected] Senior Chavurah, Tales in and out of Shul — Thursday, August 15 at 1:00 pm in the Gallery Discover more about Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky and his journeys as a Rabbi in different communities. Movies on Monaco — Thursday, August 25 at 7:00 pm in the Fisher/Blitt Hall “Train de Vie” - in this tragicomedy film, we get a thought-provoking and subversively entertaining look at how an eastern European Jewish village plans to escape the Holocaust.
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